Young Kenyans have taken to the streets to protest privatization and austerity measures imposed by the IMF and World Bank and implemented by the Kenyan government. Two weeks ago Kenyan health care workers went on strike nationally and Kenyan police shot the union president. Mercy Mabwire, national treasurer of the Kenyan Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists, and Dentists Union, spoke with Pacifica’s Steve Zeltzer.
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While many doubt President Joe Biden’s mental competence to run the country, it’s clear that someone is still in charge of the US regime change machinery, which has been humming along at its usual intensity, particularly here in the Americas. Pacifica’s Don DeBar spoke with Nicaragua-based journalist Stephen Sefton.
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Venezuela went to the polls on 28 July 2024 to re-elect President Nicolas Maduro a for a six-year term beginning on 10 January 2025. Maduro has continued the radical transformation that began under Hugo Chavez. At a recent webinar hosted by the Orinoco Tribune and the International Manifesto Group, Alan MacLeod, Senior Staff Writer for MintPress News, explained how media coverage of the elections is playing a part in the US hybrid war against Venezuela.
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Afro-Puerto Rican Independentista Dylcia Pagan spent nearly two decades as a US political prisoner until her release in 1999.
Dylcia was one of the founders of the 1970s show “Realidades” on WNET-NY, the first Puerto Rican program on public television. She was also a member of the Young Lords. While working as a TV producer on several stations in NY and Boston, she joined the clandestine Puerto Rican paramilitary organization Armed Forces of National Liberation (FALN).
In a 2005 interview with JR Valrey of Block Report Radio, Dylcia gave a brief history of the revolutionary Puerto Rican Independence Movement.
Dylcia Pagan was born on October 15, 1946 in Bronx, New York. She made her transition on June 30, 2024 in Carolina, Puerto Rico at age 77.
For more on Dylcia Pagan visit latinopia.com
And that concludes today’s edition of Capitalism, Race & Democracy. We thank all of Pacifica’s sister stations and affiliates who contribute to the production of this show. Today’s program was produced by the Capitalism, Race & Democracy collective, with contributions from Akua Holt, Steve Zeltzer, JR Valrey, Ann Garrison, and Polina Vasiliev.
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